The Essential Supernatural: A Dialogical Study in Kierkegaard and Blondel - Couverture rigide

Agbaw–ebai, Maurice Ashley

 
9781587312403: The Essential Supernatural: A Dialogical Study in Kierkegaard and Blondel
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1587312409 ISBN 13 : 9781587312403
Editeur : St Augustine's Press, 2022

Synopsis

Søren Kirkegaard and Maurice Blondel are positioned together in a dialogue regarding the vision of the supernatural. Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai draws from this a sharper image of the preeminent place religious experience possesses in human life and thought. Kirkegaard's lament of Christian lack of fervor and Blondel's concern that religion and philosophy no longer interact are both examined and Agbaw-Ebai concludes that they both indicate the same outcome: a "dominant leveling of society" that robs religion of its particularity. This devastates the individual because he is no longer challenged to seek a relationship with God and expose himself to the supernatural. The boundlessness of man must be acknowledged or else his actions will never be understood, and religious experience and philosophy must coexist with mutual reference or self-knowledge will never amount to the discovery of supernatural destiny. And this, asserts Agbaw-Ebai, is the shared urgency of both Kirkegaard and Blondel.

Like these philosophers who have preceded him, Agbaw-Ebai exhorts us to never allow the sense of our relation to the supernatural as a settled matter. The philosophy of religion we have inherited does not protect us from having to confront our own subjectivity with autonomy: to be God without God and against God, or to be God with and through God.

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À propos de l?auteur

Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai is a priest of the Diocese of Mamfe, Cameroon. He currently teaches courses in Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Boston College, Newton MA, and St John's Seminary, Brighton MA. He is author of Light of Reason, Light of Faith: Joseph Ratzinger and the German Enlightenment.

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Éditeur
St Augustine's Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1587312409
ISBN 13 
9781587312403
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
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